NAVAJO DAM

402 ft (123 m) high and 3,648 ft (1,112 m) long, NW N.Mex., on the San Juan River, near the Colo. line; built 1958–63 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The dam, a major unit of the Colorado River storage project, regulates the flow of the San Juan River and provides flood control. Water impounded by the dam is used by the Navajos to irrigate a significant portion of land on the Navajo Native American Reservation.

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books on: Navajo Dam  - 976 results

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1.
Navajo Ways in Government: A Study in Political Process
Book by Mary Shepardson; American Anthropological Association, 1963
Subjects: Navajo Indians--Government Relations, Navajo Indians--Tribal Government
...floods. One enterprising Navajo built a dam near Fruitland in the...1960:98 . The planned Navajo Dam and Reservoir will support...Health 959,185 2.4 --Navajo Tribe 2,617,527 6.6 --Glen Canyon Dam 453,232 1.1 --Ordnance...
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The Archaeology of Navajo Origins
Book by Ronald H. Towner; University of Utah Press, 1996
Subjects: Archaeology--Southwest, New, Navajo Indians--Antiquities, Navajo Indians--Origin, Southwest, New--Antiquities
The Archaeology of Navajo Origins The Archaeology of Navajo Origins Edited by RONALD H. TOWNER UNIVERSITY OF...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The archaeology of Navajo origins / edited by Ronald H. Towner. p. cm. Includes...
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The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: An American Tragedy
Book by David M. Brugge; University of New Mexico Press, 1994
Subjects: Hopi Indians--Land Tenure, Indian Land Transfers--Arizona, Indians Of North America--Land Tenure--Arizona, Navajo Indians--Land Tenure
THE NAVAJO-HOPI LAND DISPUTE The NAVAJO-HOPI LAND DISPUTE An American Tragedy DAVID M. BRUGGE...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brugge, David M. The Navajo-Hopi land dispute : an American tragedy / David M. Brugge.--1st...
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The Nightway: A History and a History of Documentation of a Navajo Ceremonial
Book by James C. Faris; University of New Mexico Press, 1990
Subjects: Navajo Indians--Medicine, Navajo Indians--Rites And Ceremonies, Navajo Indians--Study And Teaching--History
...prevail in order to avoid awkward constructions. Orthography of Navajo will follow conventional English usage with popular words such...Columbia University, New York, NY Bush Collection DAM = Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO. EMS = Etnografiska Museet...
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A Place to Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Indigenous Schooling
Book by Teresa L. McCarty, Fred Bia; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002
Subjects: Navajo Indians--Education, Navajo Indians--Ethnic Identity, Rough Rock Demonstration School
A PLACE TO BE NAVAJO Rough Rock and the Struggle for...Intercivilizational Analysis McCarty A Place To Be Navajo: Rough Rock and the Struggle for Self...and Immigrant Families A PLACE TO BE NAVAJO Rough Rock and the Struggle for...
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journal articles on: Navajo Dam  - 60 results

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Navajo Livestock Reduction in Southeastern Utah, 1933-46: History Repeats Itself
Journal article by Robert S. McPherson; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 22, 1998
Subjects: Indians Of Central America--Periodicals
...Depleted vegetation, soil erosion, silt accumulation at Hoover Dam, expanding herds, restrictions on off-reservation grazing, poor...part of the motivation to reduce livestock and modernize the Navajos livelihood and management of resources. 26 In Utah, as in...
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The Advocacy Coalition Framework and Implementation of the Endangered Species Act: A Case Study in Western Water Politics
Journal article by Brian A. Ellison; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 26, 1998
Subjects: Coalition (Social sciences)--Analysis, Endangered Species Act of 1973, Public policy (Law)--Analysis, Water resources development--Case studies
...water could be made available at Navajo Dam to mimic the spring runoffs needed...and its tributaries; (3) operate Navajo Dam for the duration of the research...of the San Juan River; (4) operate Navajo Dam for the benefit of the Colorado squawfish...
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Water and the West in Historical Imagination: Part Two-A Decade Later
Journal article by Jr. Norris Hundley; The Historian, Vol. 66, 2004
Subjects: American West (Historical region)--Natural history, American West (Historical region)--Social aspects, Frontier literature--Criticism and interpretation, Historians--Works
...struggle involving Indians and Orme Dam but also another fight involving Indians...role, ... especially the Hualapai and Navajo Nations.... Both environmentalists...and the Reclamation Bureau with its Navajo Dam. Focusing on Idahos Snake River Valley...
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1995 Ninth Circuit Environmental Review
Journal article by Kathleen C. Becker, David A. Christensen, Karla A. Raettig, Holly J. Somers, Heidi Van Kirk; Environmental Law, Vol. 26, 1996
Subjects: Environmental law--Surveys, United States. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit--Surveys
...summary judgment for the United States. 2. Peabody Coal Co. v. Navajo Nation, 75 F.3d 457 (9th Cir. 1996). The Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act of 1974 (Act) provides that Navajo and Hopi Tribes will maintain joint ownership of all minerals within...
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Frankenstein and Pitbull? Transmogrifying the Endangered Species Act and "Fixing" the San Juan-Chama Project after Rio Grande Silvery Minnow V. Keys
Journal article by Ethan R. Hasenstein; Environmental Law, Vol. 34, 2004
Subjects: Endangered Species Act of 1973, Endangered species--Laws, regulations and rules, Minnows--Laws, regulations and rules, Rio Grande Silvery Minnow v. Keys--333 F.3d 1109 (10th Cir. 2003), Water rights--Laws, regulations and rules
...include taking control of the Dam when necessary to meet the requirements...water, once the lifeblood of the Navajo and Little Navajo Rivers, tributaries...Bureau held fee title to the dam and water rights under Oregon...1993). (74) At one time, the Navajo River sustained a profitable...
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magazine articles on: Navajo Dam  - 21 results

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Water, Power, and Tourism: Hoover Dam and the Making of the New West
Magazine article by Michael Duchemin; California History, Vol. 86, September 2009
Subjects: Concrete dams--Political aspects, Concrete dams--Social aspects, Dam construction--Political aspects, Dam construction--Social aspects, Dams--Design and construction, Dams--Political aspects, Dams--Social aspects, Hoover Dam, Arizona and Nevada--Political aspects, Hoover Dam, Arizona and Nevada--Social aspects, New Deal, 1933-1939--Analysis, Western United States--Political aspects, Western United States--Social aspects
...reporter mentioned the "great PWA projects--Muscle Shoals, Norris, Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dam, the Tennessee Valley development, the great Navajo erosion and reclamation project in Arizona and New Mexico, the incredible Boulder Dam" that dotted...
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Navajo Relocation; Indian Land, White Greed
Magazine article by Trebbe Johnson; The Nation, Vol. 245, July 4, 1987
Subjects: Hopis--Laws, regulations and rules, Land settlement--Case studies, Native American land tenure, Native Americans--Land tenure, Navajos--Laws, regulations and rules
...Nobody knows whats going on around here, saidWayne Lynch, a young Navajo-Anglo F.R.C. employee who lists among his responsibilities driving...total of twenty range units are planned. In 1979 a tailings mill dam collapsed sixty miles upstream, at United Nuclear Corporations...
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Let the River Run through It
Magazine article by David Brower; Sierra, Vol. 82, March 1997
Subjects: Colorado River--Environmental aspects, Dams--Environmental aspects, Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona--Environmental aspects, Lake Powell--Environmental aspects
...and "the sudden poetry of springs," Wallace Stegners beautiful phrase, will be revealed again below the sculptured walls of Navajo sandstone. The phrase, "as long as the rivers shall run and the grasses grow," will regain its meaning. The candle conservationists...
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Wild at Heart
Magazine article by B.J. Bergman; Sierra, Vol. 83, January 1998
Subjects: Earth First!--Officials and employees, Environmentalists--Conduct of life, Foreman, Dave--Conduct of life, Sierra Club--Officials and employees
...languor, still upstream from Navajo Bridge and barely 20 miles below...concrete monolith called Glen Canyon Dam. Hour One on the Colorado: immensity...forgery, an illusory crack in the dam that corralled the Colorado and...per second today, high by post-dam standards but a trickle compared...
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A Cowboy's Lament: Energy Companies Declare Open Season on New Mexico
Magazine article by Marilyn Berlin Snell; Sierra, Vol. 88, July 2003
...atop a vertigo-inducing earthen dam in the San Juan Basin, in northwestern...buried here at the bottom of Navajo Lake. Reflected in the reservoir...wells that pock the land around Navajo Lake--then rolls down his pickup...this home of the Dinetah, or Navajo holy land, as well as Anasazi...
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Obituaries
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 13, 2008
...care of Yoncalla High School. Richard Mallam NAVAJO DAM, N.M. - Richard "Dick" Mallam of Navajo Dam, N.M., formerly of the Lane County area, died...Lake Havasu City, Ariz., and Paul Mallam of Navajo Dam, N.M.; four sisters, Judy Smith of Eugene...
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For the Record
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 13, 2008
...funeral will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Springfield Memorial Gardens Funeral Home. Mallam - Richard "Dick" Mallam, 65, of Navajo Dam, N.M., formerly of the Lane County area, died June 4. A service was held June 9. Arrangements by Alternative Choice Cremation...
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Monument to a Vibrant Early People of Arizona; Pueblo Cave Dwellers Taught Navajos to Farm
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 31, 2004
...villages are encompassed within the Navajo reservation. A 17-mile self...1906 to construct the Roosevelt Dam, which lies at the northernmost...hogan, an eight-sided domed Navajo dwelling usually made of mud...of the imposing Glen Canyon Dam, just in time to board a paddle-wheeler...
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EPA Reviewing Bush Policies; Latest Reversals Cheered by Environmentalists
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 1, 2009
Subjects: Air pollution, Environmental activists, Environmentalists
...process of putting Mr. Obamas priorities into the books. The Navajo reconsideration has been in keeping with a steady drumbeat of...are likely as well. Its like the proverbial floodgates at the dam, he said. Theyre just opened. Jackson NO CREDIT Lisa Jackson...
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The Still of the Canyon
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 8, 2007
...since 2001, but because the land is considered sacred by the Navajo, only 600 persons a year can enter the canyon. To keep the experience...Page did not exist until construction began on the Glen Canyon Dam in 1956; it was incorporated in 1975. * * * Overland Canyon...
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encyclopedia articles on: Navajo Dam  - 6 results

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Navajo Dam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NAVAJO DAM 402 ft (123 m) high and 3,648 ft (1,112 m) long, NW N.Mex., on...the San Juan River and provides flood control. Water impounded by the dam is used by the Navajos to irrigate a significant portion of land on the Navajo Native American...
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San Juan , River, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the San Juan Mts., SW Colo., and flowing generally W through N.Mex. and Utah to Lake Powell on the Colorado River. Navajo Dam , part of the upper Colorado River storage project, is on the river, which is unnavigable. Its chief tributaries are...
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Colorado River Storage Project
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...project are Glen Canyon Dam , on the Colorado River in Arizona; Flaming Gorge Dam , on the Green River in Utah; Navajo Dam , on the San Juan River in New Mexico; and the Curecanti dams on the Gunnison River in Colorado. The three reservoirs...
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Arizona
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Imperial, and Laguna dams. At the Parker dam, the Central Arizona Project diverts water...ancient Native American ruins, and the Navajo and Hopi reservations that cover nearly...the United States. In addition to the Navajo , they include Mohave , Apache...
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National Parks and Monuments
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bluff, Gaines Mill, Malvern Hill, and Beaver Dam Creek. Shiloh MP SW Tenn. 1894 3...Wyo. 1966 120,296 (48,720) Yellowtail Dam and spectacular Bighorn Canyon, on the...Lake Powell, formed by the Glen Canyon Dam . Golden Gate RA W Calif. 1972 73...
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